‘The Malmo loss hurt but we’ll prove we’re a top-six club’

New recruit Owain Tudur Jones is remaining upbeat despite Hibernian's disastrous start to the season

Owain Tudur Jones hopes to help Hibs start their league season well (CRAIG WILLIAMSON)

IF HE wasn’t on the pitch when Hibs lost 7-0 to Malmo in the Europa League last month, then Owain Tudur Jones understood precisely how his new colleagues felt in the gloomy aftermath. His debut for Norwich City four years ago was similarly disastrous, ending in a 7-1 defeat to Colchester United and the immediate sacking of Bryan Gunn, the manager who had just signed him from Swansea City for £250,000. Gunn was replaced by Paul Lambert, Colchester’s manager, then Tudur Jones was injured and couldn’t regain his place as Norwich gathered the momentum that has since taken them to the Premier League. So you could say it is an unwelcome case of deja vu for the 28-year-old, who was such a standout in Inverness’s midfield last season and not only because he is 6ft 3in tall.